Standing by Our Colleagues in Gaza — A Plea to the U.S. Medical Community | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

I can understand physicians often being silent when it comes to politics for a variety of reasons. However, this is a moment where we need to be heard stating two things very clearly (1/2):

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

Oh fine, let's walk through the implications of NOT providing emergency health care to all people who walk into a US hospital. Someone shows up in the ER having a heart attack. (1/3)

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

Worth mentioning that H-1B visa holders keep the majority of rural hospitals in America functioning

I can confirm that this is a very accurate description of what people who are trying to help improve the lives of patients with cancer, including myself, are facing.

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How can this be real? It is - this is a very real post by the current acting director of the CDC - essentially a full confession of scientific illiteracy. God help us.

Sheffield researchers doing The Lord’s work. Great study. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

My Friday night hot take is that replication studies are largely a waste of time & $ If a result is worth following up on, it's better to address from a different angle & see if it holds water. Strong ideas withstand this Conversely, there R infinite ways a replication can fail that teach you zip

Nature: Cancelling mRNA studies is the highest irresponsibility go.nature.com/3HDx4wD cc Jay Bhattacharya

Top 10 causes of death in the US: heart disease, cancer, COVID, trauma/overdose, stroke, chronic respiratory disease, Alzheimer's, diabetes, kidney disease, and liver disease/cirrhosis. # of mentions of any of these in the current 'unified strategy': 0. www.nih.gov/about-nih/ni...

“The symbolism could not be clearer: Scientists, doctors, public health officials, and law enforcement officials — people whose life’s work is to protect the nation — have targets on their backs.” Bravo @celinegounder.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...

On 8/5, HHS cancelled all federal funding for mRNA vaccine research. On 8/6, @rfk-junior.bsky.social posted, “Doctors, hospitals, insurance companies, and pharmaceutical giants profit by keeping Americans sick.” On 8/8, a man convinced he was made sick by the COVID vaccine shot up by the CDC.

At this point the end of scientific research in the US seems more like an inevitability than a concern. I wish someone could explain to me the benefits that outweigh the catastrophic harms of this series of decisions. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Today’s NCI announcement is akin to Thanos snapping his fingers and wiping out half of American scientific workforce. Except that the wiping out part will take much longer to play out.

I feel so unbelievably sad for all the young careers that will be destroyed by this funding decision and all the potential knowledge lost that could have helped patients. For nothing. It is…. very difficult not to lose any remaining vestiges of optimism.

In light of today’s news about the National Cancer Institute announcing a 4% payline, it’s really important to communicate to people that the previous 10% payline was still effectively a lottery and the result of decades of underfunding the NIH. Paylines used to be 25%.

Unconscionale and unforgivable.

I would encourage everyone to read this open-access article from @thelancet.com, which analyzes the impact of #USAID funding and estimates that the cut in funding by the Trump administration will lead to FOURTEEN MILLION EXCESS DEATHS IN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Judgment based on ethnic heritage is federal policy now, I guess - and quite befitting of those making the policy.

You guys...sometimes its actually awesome to meet your heroes. I met Carolyn after she delivered a riveting and inspiring speech to at the @mskcancercenter.bsky.social graduate school commencement and she absolutely manifests the joy and community that are the reasons that we do science.

#Preprint alert! Pioneering work by Tanmana Mitra, a graduate student in @wcm-imp.bsky.social, sheds new insights into why T cells become metabolically exhausted during persistent antigen encounter: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#Preprint alert! Kevin Chen, a brilliant @mskcancercenter.bsky.social GSK graduate student and NCI F99/K00 awardee, identifies a novel, post-transcriptional checkpoint on intratumoral T cell function: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Tagging co-lead, superstar, and future leader of the free world @emilystroo.bsky.social

Part 2 of our combined efforts with Sohrab Shah and Vivian Strong to understand immune evasion in gastric cancer describes the work in this preprint, led by Sohrab Salehi and Emily Stroobant in a brilliant collaboration: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Combined #preprint and paper alert! Together with Sohrab Shah and Vivian Strong, we have been exploring a fundamental paradox of cancer biology: how can the immune response both suppress and facilitate tumorigenesis? (It's a 2-parter!) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This is asinine in 50 ways before you even get to the part where he uses a double negative and ends up saying the opposite of what he wants. He is an existential threat to the health of all Americans and anyone who gives him any credibility has none of their own.

How can anyone defend this? I legitimately cant believe it. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/h...

Jesus Christ this is beyond the pale

Dystopian. This is the opposite of the NIH’s mission.

We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again

@rfk-junior.bsky.social if you have a shred of dignity you will resign. I won’t hold my breath. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/h...

Apparently America is now a country where immigrants only belong if they stay quiet.

A Fulbright Scholar.

Beyond thrilled to support @katmabu.bsky.social for Congress, someone unafraid to speak truth to power including within her own party.

At this point i think we should have to return the Statue of Liberty. Emma Lazarus would be ashamed. time.com/7269604/el-s...

Scientific research in America is hurtling towards a cliff, and it may be too late to save it. I don’t have much else to say about it. I’m just sad.

Now and forever proud to be a @upenn.edu alumnus. Sending thoughts to my friends and colleagues persevering through this insanity. And shame on those who support or even tolerate this; you disgust me.

I don’t know what to say anymore.

Good lord, what an idiot. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/h...

It's the only option: slow down expts, frantically write grants. But science funding is a 0-sum game. The damage being done to our fed agencies means less science gets done across the entire country, no matter how hard scientists work. Eventually, some of us will have to leave science all together

The effects of RFK Jr’s disinformation are already showing. If he had any decency he would resign. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/h...

There is a natural tendency to be most affected by policy changes that affect you personally. For me it is of course the NIH. But I beg of all of us in science to be as outraged about the death of USAID, which will cause untold death and suffering. www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-...

If you can read this and not conclude that the current administration is unforgivably morally bankrupt and should be opposed with every fiber of our being, I think you need to look inward. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

lol do you know how many kids take the subway to middle school here you giant baby

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